Miscellany

A cross-country helium balloon race was won by the contest’s only all-women’s team.

Lesley Davies and Carol Rymer-Davis landed Tuesday near Lisbon, Ohio, 1,450 miles from Albuquerque and the start of the first America’s Challenge race.

Davies, of Vail, Colo., and Rymer-Davis, of Denver, took off Saturday along with 11 other two-member teams during the annual Albuquerque balloon fiesta. The winner was determined by distance traveled.

On the second day of the Don King trial in New York, prosecutors tried to show that the boxing promoter got the idea for the fraud scheme he is charged with after he ran into trouble collecting insurance for an earlier fight.

Kansas, Temple, Massachusetts and Georgia Tech will play at the Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., on Dec. 22 in the Jimmy V Classic, a benefit to raise money for cancer research.

The Pacific-10 Conference’s investigation into Donnie Edwards’ alleged acceptance of $150 from sports agent Robert Caron concluded that Edwards did not know the money came from Caron, according to the NCAA’s director of eligibility.

In Lumberton, N.C., defense lawyers questioned investigators in an attempt to exclude testimony from a cellmate of the man charged with killing Michael Jordan’s father, James.